Mer Barr

Another great ‘chapter' in Harry Dresden's life.

I love the character Anna Pigeon, and the narrator of this series of books does a fantastic job of telling the story, but this story is just too dark for my taste.

1. I'm not a fan of short books. I like the middle of the road sized, where there's some room to build out a storyline and characters.
2. It's about stories of the region and as I'm not a native I'm confused as to whether the stories' characters are based on reality or made up [for some reason this is important to me, don't yet know why] and lost track of who was who and who was with who. I prefer not to get lost in the telling of a story.
3. I had a hard time becoming attached to the stories or the characters both the book's and the stories'. See 2.

It didn't age well. The philosophy and language is really outdated for me.

I'm more into science-SciFi so fantasy, questing and sword fights don't really keep my attention. I at least got to the part where they made connection with the daughter.

I've read quite a few books on a specific species found somewhere in the ocean. This is a really great book for looking at the macro system of the ocean, which short dives into specific topics or species and how they interact with, affect, and are affected by, the whole.Lots of science thrown at you but the author does a really amazing job of describing the science in layman's terms. The number of subject is incredible! Of course, I shouldn't be surprised considering the size and complexity of the ocean. I also like how she intersperses her own career activities amongst it, not always syncing with the chapter topic. I'm incredibly jealous of her travels and world experiences but so happy she chose to share them.

This might have been one of the first books I was introduced to, when I was introduced to science-fiction and fantasy in junior high school. I read both the first and second Chronicles and remember mentally throw yellow and later red cards [rugby and soccer penalties] at the main character.

Had Goodreads been around at the time I would have rated all the books 1-star, which is why it's taken me decades to circle back to this. The weird thing is I still have both sets in my physical library collection and have been dragging them from home-to-home this entire time.

As an adult with more setbacks and dark days under my belt, I now understand the majority of the characters' motivations and reasons and therefore found this book much more enjoyable; no card displaying, let alone throwing them, at a character. I'm confident I'll read at least the next in the series, just not sure when.

Reads alot like the society column in newspapers, which I found fine for a while, but it got old after a bit.

The telling of the story doesn't always seem to follow a clear timeline due to the gossip-like quality, more like listening to someone say whatever came to mind at the moment. I didn't find this good or bad, just unusual.

Didn't get moving really until mid-way thru and I'm seriously confused about which characters are which? There are several I have no memory of even those I've read all the previous books. It'd be nice if she had a prologue giving a summary of people and goings-on from the prior chapters/novellas in every novella.

Rather than reading all prior books multiple times, I'm going to way for the next 2-3 novellas to come out, which is years down the road.

This one is only really fun if you're already familiar with the author and his prior lifestyle, know a fair amount of British slang, and can handle cursing.

I will say his responses are well thought out and he uses personal antidotes and research to back up his replies. He does a nice job of breaking themes into chapters and intersperses various types of factoids through-out so it's not just 1 ask-reply after another.

This makes me want to read Sharon Osbourne's memoir. How did she get through his wild days?

I spent a good part of this book scratching my head. First I'm not sure where the story is going, then when I think I'm following it all goes wonky and stays that way for quite some time before making any sense again. But well worth the read.

I found several common themes; 1 to a recent movie and several to The City and the Stars, Arthur C. Clarke. The audio had a male and female narrator as the perspective switched, which helped reduce confusion due to the change, the story did move along [even when confusing], and many kickstarts to a new twist just when you thought the book was about to end, which was nice.

It's been awhile since I read a good hard-science sci-fi.

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I think this is the earliest confident, intelligent female who's comfortable with her body that I've come across.

Images are easy to understand due to simple coloring and the text is pretty tiny [thank goodness for 2-finger zoom]. Although there's not a visual clue that you're looking at the next issue in the series, the fact that people come and go, do.

I wonder if the artists for the movie Heavy Metal got their female body shape from Barbarella? Maybe the creators of Barbie, the doll, did too?

Couldn't get interested in it.

Insightful, sometimes the writing is a bit unusual and I'm not sure why. If it was directly quoted from a journal it would make sense but the entire book is more of a look-back to his experiences at the time. I was listening to the audio so maybe there is a visual clue in visual text form that would explain this.The author's view of this war reminds me alot of Mick Herron and John le Carré's portrayals of the ‘Cold' war. More realistic and not so glamorous as ‘Cubby' Broccoli's interpretation of Ian Fleming's stories. I've not read the latter recently so not sure if Mr. Broccoli's movies are true to the portrayal of the war as the author's books or not.And I think this book is a great companion to The Ten Thousand Day War, Michael Maclear's macro view, and a similar micro / personal viewpoint to Vietnam Voices: Perspectives On the War Years, 1941-1982, John Clark Pratt.

I couldn't really get interested in the story, the interactions between characters, the species, the world. And what's with the sprint on the last 2 pages of the book? Why not get the pace going a bit sooner?

A fun read in an overwhelming crowd of depressing books.

The storyline keeps moving and the characters are interesting and draw you in.

Interesting perspective on the beginnings of World War 2 and then I ran out of time before I had to return the book. In the first couple chapters there are disconnects in the storyline. For example, at one point the author is talking about something going on when she was a small child and then immediately jumps to her father's youth. I didn't see the connection, or I missed it, if there was one.

It's been quite a while since I had a true 'page turner'. Something you want to pick up, something you ignore all other obligations to get the last 30 pages done.